EP0217890A1 - Endodontic tool for use in cleansing tooth root canals, and drive instrument for such tool. - Google Patents
Endodontic tool for use in cleansing tooth root canals, and drive instrument for such tool.Info
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- EP0217890A1 EP0217890A1 EP86902355A EP86902355A EP0217890A1 EP 0217890 A1 EP0217890 A1 EP 0217890A1 EP 86902355 A EP86902355 A EP 86902355A EP 86902355 A EP86902355 A EP 86902355A EP 0217890 A1 EP0217890 A1 EP 0217890A1
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Classifications
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61C—DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE
- A61C3/00—Dental tools or instruments
- A61C3/02—Tooth drilling or cutting instruments; Instruments acting like a sandblast machine
- A61C3/03—Instruments operated by vibration
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61C—DENTISTRY; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE
- A61C5/00—Filling or capping teeth
- A61C5/40—Implements for surgical treatment of the roots or nerves of the teeth; Nerve needles; Methods or instruments for medication of the roots
- A61C5/42—Files for root canals; Handgrips or guiding means therefor
Definitions
- TITLE Tool, in particular for use in cleansing tooth root canals, and drive instrument for such tool.
- the present invention relates to a file or broaching tool, in particular for use in cleansing and preparation of tooth root canals and otherwise of the type defined in the opening clause of claim 1. Furthermore, this invention relates to a drive element adapted to drive such a tool and being of the type defined in the opening clause of claim 4.
- a relatively thin round file or broach which is inserted into the root canal and is pulled back and forth therein, while the dentist grasps and manipulates one end or a handle portion of the file with his fingers.
- a broach or endodontic file at the end of a drive element or drive member of the type which is adapted to be powered by an ultrasonic handpiece of the sorts which are in common use in many dental clinics.
- Such handpieces include an elongated and relatively slim housing which is used held as a pencil, and the outer end of the housing is adapted for mounting replacable work tools thereon, for instance tools for tooth scaling.
- the drive member of such work tools is powered to make mechanical and ultrasonic longitudinal vibrations by means of vibratory equipment in the interior of the housing.
- the ideal pattern of motion for a needle-shaped work tool of the type in question would be a reciprocating movement whereby the tool, or at least its working part, is integrally moved in a generally axial motion. Therefore it would be natural to mount the work tool or needle as a direct extension of the bar-shaped drive stem of the drive member. This would, however, result in that it would be almost impossible to use the needle in the patient's mouth when the the ultrasonic handpiece is held and manipulated in the usual manner, i.e. held as a pencil.
- the axis of the needle or its working direction cannot coincide with the principal direction of motion for the powering mechanical vibrations which are generated by the ultrasonic handpiece and are transferred to the needle through the drive instrument for the needle. Consequently, the powering vibrations will provide substantial transversal oscillations in the needle.
- frequencies of movement which are substantially below the resonant frequencies of the needle since, other ⁇ wise, these resonant frequencies would be excited and result in trans ⁇ versal natural oscillations in the needle.
- such natural oscillations will be undamped and will, consequently, be very unfortunate and straining for the material of the needle which, after a rather short periode of use, will break because of fatique fractures in the material.
- a straight needle or root canal file is removably mounted as an axial extension of a bar-shaped drive member and in order to achieve an appropriate working position for the needle, the drive member is shaped with a bend which directs the needle in an appropriate direction relative to the main axis of the instrument.
- the bend of the drive member will provide or give rise to substantial transversal oscillations in the needle and, •consequently, it is only possible to operate at relatively low frequencies, if needle breakage is to be avoided.
- the manner of mounting the needle makes it necessary to use a particular collet chuck at the end of the drive member in order to avoid that the needle comes loose during use.
- a straight needle or root canal file which is attached in a particular head portion at the outermost end of a bar-shaped drive member.
- the head portion is designed as an unsymmetrical body relative to the longitudinal axis or the axis of oscillation of the drive member.
- this head portion will perform a pattern of oscillation which includes special components of vibration having a main direction which is transverse to the powering longitudinal oscillations in the drive member.
- the straight needle is attached to the head portion and is directed in the direction of these special components of vibration.
- such a head portion is awkward to use in the patient's mouth and, moreover, inappropriate or destructive transversal oscillations will still be provided in the needle.
- a tool according to the invention can advantageously be used in a drive member or an instrument of the type just mentioned in which the outer or distal end of the drive member is.shaped as a head which makes special oscillations with components transverse to the main direction of the powering longitudinal vibrations.
- the best results are obtainable when using the tool of this invention in a drive instrument in accordance with the invention which is characterized by the features defined in the characterizing clause of claim 4.
- the angled part of the drive stem and the bending of the tool shank can be matched together in such a manner that unfortunately directed vibration components can be suppressed to a substantial extent.
- Fig. 1 shows a tool in accordance with the invention as seen from one side
- FIG. 2 is a side elevation similar to figure 1 but showing a preferred embodiment of the tool of the invention
- Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing a tool as that of figure 2 attached into a preferred embodiment of the drive instrument in accordance with the invention.
- Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing - partially in section and enlarged - the distal end of the drive instrument of figure 3.
- fig. 1 shows a tool according to the invention which includes a generally straight working portion 2 which merges into a shank portion 4.
- the working portion 2 is provided with appropriate cutting edges which may be of the type used on a usual broaching needle or endodontic file.
- the shank portion 4 has a bend 8 so that a shank end 6 is provided and is adapted for attachment in a drive instrument, and an axis of the shank end defines an angle with the axis of the working portion 2.
- Fig. 2 illustrates a preferred embodiment which also has a further bend 10 in its shank portion 4 so that the shank portion includes two oppositely directed bends 8, 10 with parallel axes of bending.
- the bend 10 which is closest to the working portion 2 may advantageously be more rounded than the first bend 8.
- the two bends 8, 10 need not be so adapted that the axis of the shank end 6 is parallel with the axis of the working portion 2.
- a drive instrument includes a generally bar-shaped drive member 12 having a proximal end portion 14 adapted for insertion into an ultrasonic handpiece.
- the proximal end portion 14 includes means for coupling to the oscillator equipment of the handpiece so that longitudinal high frequency vibrations are provided in the drive member 12.
- these coupling means comprise a socket whereby the drive member 12 is rigidly connected with one end of a usual ferrite core indicated at 16. This core is part of the oscillator equipment and high frequency longitudinal vibrations are generated in the core by means of an alternating magnetic field provided in the handpiece.
- the vibration providing core 16 is permanently connected with the socket on the end portion 14 and, accordingly, the core 16 can be regarded as being a part of the drive member 12.
- This is expedient but is not an absolute necessity, the main thing being that one end of the drive member 12 is quickly and easily insertable into a handpiece of the type contemplated and during the insertion can be effectively coupled together with the powering or vibratory device of the handpiece so that longitudinal vibrations are provided in the drive member 12.
- the drive member 12 may also include a flange 15 for use in the mounting in the handpiece.
- the various components of the drive member are also so adapted that the powering longitudinal vibrations in the drive member 12 will include a nodal center at the flange 15 and a maximum of motion close by the other or distal end 18 of the drive member.
- the distal end of the drive member 12 is designed as a separate oscillating body with a center of gravity which is offset relative to the longitudinal axis or the axis of vibration for the drive member 12.
- This particular oscillating body will, accordingly, perform a separate oscillatory pattern about an axis which is indicated at 22, and these oscillations will include substantial components acting transverse to the powering longitudinal vibrations in the drive member 12.
- this particular oscillating body at the distal end 18 of the drive member could be regarded as a separate oscillatory system which transforms or redirects a part of the powering longitudinal vibrations in the drive member 12 into oscillations which act generally transverse to the main direction of the powering longitudinal vibrations.
- These redirected oscillations can be used to power a tool or a needle, and the influences thereon will include a substantially less content of transversal components compared to a corresponding tool which is attached in and powered by an entirely straight drive member with uniform cross section.
- the movements at the particular body at the distal end 18 of the drive member will be elliptical in a plane defined by the longitudinal axis of the drive member and an axis which extends through the point 22 and the center of gravity for the body at the end 18. This elliptical movement can be stabilized when the nodal center at the flange 15 is fixed or retained.
- a tool of this invention as that of fig. 1 or fig. 2 is considered separately, and if the working portion 2 is supposed to be powered at its free end with a poweringlongitudinal vibration, then the angled shank end 6 would also be able to transform longitudinal vibrations in a similar manner, since also the shank end 6 has a center of gravity which is offset relative to the longitudinal axis of the working portion 2. In this situation the shank end 6 would, accordingly, also perform an elliptical movement.
- the two elliptical patterns of motion can be made to correspond to each other as regards size and shape.
- the resonant frequencies of the two elliptical oscillations can be so adapted that they are in the same frequency area, but yet they are so different that one oscillation cannot generate the other one.
- the resonances in the tool will be removed or suppressed, because the tool is powered in the correct - or almost correct - pattern of motion, but with a mis-matched frequency. Consequently, the body or mass at the distal end 18 will control or drive the tool in the pattern of motion which is determined by the body and can propagate into the entire tool in the shape of oscillations with very small amplitudes, because the oscillations are not in harmony with the geometry and natural oscilla ⁇ tions of the tool. Since the amplitudes are small the strains in the tool material are also small, and destructive oscillations are not provided in the tool material.
- the tool of this invention can be powered with high frequency and long lifetime by means of a drive instrument of the type described above having a distal end or mass 18 with an offset center of gravity.
- the drive instrument according to this invention is particular by having the distal end 18 angled about the axis 22 to an angle B relative to the drive member 12, and there is no need of a specially shaped and perhaps bulky head which easily will get in the way during use of the tool in the patient's mouth.
- the length of the end portion 18 should preferably be short - for instance of the same order of magnitude as the diameter of the end portion 18.
- the area about the axis 22 will operate as a sort of hinge which has bigger or smaller bending rigidity according to how much the material thickness has been reduced at 24.
- the mass or body at the end 18 can be made to oscillate with frequencies which are lower than the generator frequency, and if the difference is sufficiently big, then the generator frequency (from core 16) will be able to maintain the oscillations in the angled drive member end 18.
- the angling of the end portion 18 and the angling of the tool in accordance with the invention can be used to obtain that the working portion 2 of the tool attains an appropriate angle A relative to the longitudinal direction of the drive member 12 and of the entire handpiece.
- the clamping of the shank end 6 of the tool in the distal end 18 of the drive member can appropriately be accomplished by means of a transverse bore which possibly may be through- going, in the end portion 18, and an appropriately recessed screw may be used to safely secure the tool in place, as indicated at 20 in fig. 4.
- the first bend 8 of the tool shank 4 should preferably be rather close to the surface of the end portion 18, when the tool is mounted and secured therein.
- the tool should be secured in such a position that the bending axis 22 in the drive member 12 is parallel with each bending axis in the tool of the invention.
- the tool and drive instrument of this invention primarily have been developed for use in connection with root treatments of teeth
- the tool of the invention has turned out to be so efficient that it is very suitable as a proper drilling tool, for instance for making very fine holes in bone tissues or other materials with similar character and hardness.
- a contributing reason of this is that relatively big amounts of emergy (as an example 5 watts) can be transferred with equipment in accordance with the invention.
Abstract
Un outil d'alésage comprend une partie de travail (2) en forme d'aiguillage et une partie de manche à attacher à l'extrémité distale (18) d'une barre d'entraînement (12) d'un instrument d'entraînement de l'outil. La partie de manche de l'outil comprend au moins un coude (8) et de préférence un deuxième coude (10) également, plié en sens opposé. Une extrémité proximale (14) de la barre d'entraînement (12) de l'instrument d'entraînement est couplée à un élément vibratoire (16) qui peut ainsi générer des vibrations longitudinales de haute fréquence dans la barre d'entraînement (12). L'extrémité distale (18) de la barre d'entraînement forme un angle (B) par rapport à une axe (22) qui agit comme une charnière relativement rigide. En adaptant et ajustant entre autres l'angle (B) et les coudes (8, 10) de l'outil, il est possible d'annuler des oscillations naturelles destructives de l'outil. Celui-ci peut donc être activé et utilisé à des hautes fréquences de travail sans risque de ruptures du matériau de l'outil dues à la fatigue.A boring tool comprises a working part (2) in the form of a switch and a handle part to be attached to the distal end (18) of a drive bar (12) of a drive instrument of the tool. The handle part of the tool comprises at least one bend (8) and preferably a second bend (10) also, bent in opposite directions. A proximal end (14) of the drive bar (12) of the drive instrument is coupled to a vibrating element (16) which can thereby generate high frequency longitudinal vibrations in the drive bar (12) . The distal end (18) of the drive bar forms an angle (B) with respect to an axis (22) which acts as a relatively rigid hinge. By adapting and adjusting, among other things, the angle (B) and the elbows (8, 10) of the tool, it is possible to cancel the destructive natural oscillations of the tool. It can therefore be activated and used at high working frequencies without risk of breakage of the tool material due to fatigue.
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